280 CHARADRIIFORMES CHAP. 
World, has been obtained in England, and migrates at least as far 
as Ecuador and Brazil; the very similar Eastern Asiatic 7. 
subminuta reaches Bering Island, and winters southwards to 
the Indian Region and Australia. The habits and eggs of the 
Little Stint resemble those of the Dunlin, but the latter are 
smaller; the note, too, is more like the twitter of a swallow. 7. 
temmincki is greyish-brown above and more buff below, with dark 
markings throughout, white belly, alar bar and four outer rectrices. 
Im winter the dusky markings vanish, and the birds resemble 
miniature Common Sandpipers. They frequently visit Britain, 
and breed in Northern Europe and Asia, chiefly beyond the limits 
of forest growth; migrating southwards to Senegambia, North- 
East Africa, India, the Malay countries, and China. Temminck’s 
Stint has a hovering, butterfly-like flight, and habitually perches 
on posts and the lke, uttering a continuous trilling note or song ; 
the four buff or greyish-green eggs with their brown spotting are 
deposited on a little herbage among sedge or grass. 7. subar- 
quata, the Curlew-Sandpiper, is grey, black, and rufous, with chest- 
nut under surface and black bars on the white rump, both these 
parts becoming white in winter; the bill is long and decurved. 
As far as is yet known, the breeding-quarters lie in the far north 
of Asia, eggs having recently (1897) been taken near the mouth of 
the Yenesei: but the bird occurs in Arctic Europe in spring and 
autumn, and visits our shores irregularly in company with other 
small waders in autumn, wendering occasionally to Eastern America 
and Alaska, and migrating to Cape Colony, India, and Tasmania. 
T. fuscicollis, Bonaparte’s Sandpiper, with white upper tail-coverts, 
but dusky rump and short bill, inhabits Arctic America, reaching 
the whole of South America in winter, and even straying to Britain. 
It has also occurred in Franz Josef Land in summer. It somewhat 
resembles the Dunlin in appearance, and the Purple Sandpiper 
in habits. The closely allied 7. bairdi of nearly all America, 
which breeds towards the North, is distinguished by the median 
tail-coverts being brownish; it has once been observed in South 
Africa. Another dark-rumped species is 7. maculata, the Pectoral 
Sandpiper, blackish-brown and rufous above, and buff with dusky 
streaks beneath, the belly being white. It has occurred several 
times in Britain, but inhabits the “ Barren Grounds” from Alaska 
to Hudson’s Bay, and migrates as far as Patagonia. Four greenish- 
buff eggs with brown blotches are deposited in dry grassy spots. 
